Saturday 26 April 2014

Wanaka odds.

This will be my final batch of pics from Wanaka's last weekend air-show.
 Above we see the Brett Emeny De Havilland DH115 Vampire T55 ZK-RVM (c/n 985) being readied for another mission. It served with the Swiss Air Force from 1958 until joining the Swiss civil register as HB-RVM on 30-06-1992. Its Swiss registration was cancelled in September of 1996 and it became ZK-RVM on 26-08-1997 and is painted to represent NZ5712.
 Cessna T210R Turbo Centurion ZK-TRO3 (c/n 64918) flew into Hamilton from Honolulu and Pago Pago on 03-07-1996 and became ZK-TRC2 with TRC Toyota of Feilding on 19-07-1996.
 It was re-registered to ZK-TRO3 on 26-03-2003 to free up the ZK-TRC registration for TRC Toyota's newly imported Cessna 421C Golden Eagle.
This Cessna 210 was re-listed to B B Aviation of Feilding who also had the Cessna 195 ZK-BEB2 at Wanaka (on static display).
 Queenstown Based North American NA78 Harvard 3* ZK-XSA (c/n 78-6647). It came to NZ in 1996 and still wears its South Africa military markings.
 These last two shots show the Avro 652A Anson Mk1 ZK-RRA arriving and departing from Rangiora on 21-04-2014.

6 comments:

  1. Good spotting Ben C.
    Fixed.
    Cheers.

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  2. Cessna 421 ZK-TRC was ZK-DCN that had been in NZ for sometime.

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  3. The owner was roumoured to have picked "TRO" because all that had to happen was the "C" in the old rego be painted a little bit to close it into a "O". The 421C left NZ last year for aussie as VH-VPY

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  4. I believe ZK-XSA is an AT-6A rather than a Harvard. It is one of a batch of Texans supplied in the early-1950s direct from the USA, so isn't technically a Harvard.

    Signed, Mr P E Dant.

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  5. I won't disagree with you on that one Roy.
    Just that the Powers That Be have it listed as a North American Harvard 3* - and who am I to disagree with Them.

    Cheers

    + tic.

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